Edward Leonard Blake

Background

Blake, Edward Leonard was born on January 26, 1947 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward Leonard Senior and Charlotte (Claypoole) Blake.

Education

B Landscape Architecture, Mississippi State University, 1970.

Career

Landscape architect, Miller, Winry & Brooks, Louisville, 1970-1973; landscape architect, Jack DeBoer Associations, Wichita, Kansas, 1974; landscape architect, Oblinger Smith Corporation, Wichita, 1974-1977; landscape architect, Sun House, Starkville, Mississippi, 1979-1984; professor landscape architecture, Mississippi State University, Starkville, 1977-1984; director, Crosby Arboretum, Picayune, Mississippi, 1984-1994. Visiting design critic graduate school design Harvard University, 1994.

Achievements

• Edward Leonard Blake has been listed as a notable Landscape architect by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board of directors Hattiesburg (Mississippi) Civic Arts Council, 1986-1988. Member Hattiesburg Tree Board, since 1993. With United States Army Reserve, 1970-1975.

Member American Society Landscape Architecture (Merit award 1977, 89, Honor award 1991).

Interests

• Avocations: painting, reading, photography, music.

Connections

Married Marilyn Moore (divorced 1976). 1 child, Mathew; married Marilyn Johnson. Children: Matthew Moore, Benjamin.

Father:

Edward Leonard Senior Blake

Mother:

Charlotte (Claypoole) Blake

Spouse:

Marilyn Johnson

Spouse:

Marilyn Moore

child:

Benjamin Blake

child:

Mathew Blake

child:

Matthew Moore Blake